Requiem
(Version for Orchestra)

Text selected from the Requiem Mass, D.H. Lawrence, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the Old Testament. First performance 3rd December 2003 at St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Subsequent revisions have been small, mainly consisting of a brand new Benedictus (to replace one which, in the original performance, had been borrowed from a liturgical setting of the Mass), the expansion of the Dies Irae and the creation of a bigger orchestration, as an alternative to the chamber scoring, to make the most of the forces available at the second performance, in St. Petersburg.